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Nissan’s Intelligent Mobility vision builds on electrification, autonomous drive and vehicle intelligence

Nissan outlined its Intelligent Mobility vision at the Geneva International Motor Show. Created to guide the Nissan product evolution, Intelligent Mobility will anchor company decisions around how cars are powered, how cars are driven, and how cars integrate into society, all while staying focused on creating more enjoyable driving experiences.

At the core of Nissan Intelligent Mobility are three areas of innovation: Nissan Intelligent Driving, spearheaded by Nissan’s autonomous drive technology, Piloted Drive; Nissan Intelligent Power, spearheaded by electric vehicles (EV); and Nissan Intelligent Integration—new links between vehicles and society.

Our Intelligent Mobility vision is a framework to move customers around the world towards a safer and more sustainable future. To realize this vision, Nissan has launched a long-term strategy, supported by significant R&D investments. This enabled Nissan to introduce the breakthrough LEAF, the world’s first mass production EV, in 2010— years before any of our competitors. It has also driven our development of cutting-edge autonomous drive technologies, which will be available in a range of mass production models by 2020. These steps are allowing Nissan to deliver the benefits of EV and autonomous drive innovations to as many customers as possible and, ultimately, to lead the way toward a new era of mobility.

—Carlos Ghosn, CEO

Each area represents technological advances by Nissan – safety innovations through autonomous technology such as high-stability control and high-reliability drive systems; high-efficiency powertrains, including alternative and conventional fuel engines with advanced transmissions; and energy management solutions.

Nissan Intelligent Driving. Nissan’s Intelligent Driving is foremost about performance, comfort and safety, removing the stress from a daily commute or minimizing the risk of unsafe conditions. Many of these advances are already available, as drivers can rely today on vehicles to recognize danger or take appropriate action to enhance safety.

Nissan will advance its Safety Shield technologies such as Lane Departure Warning and Forward Emergency Braking into autonomous drive technologies, available to all customers on core models in the range.

Nissan will launch multiple vehicles with autonomous drive technology in the next four years in Europe, the United States, Japan and China. The technology will be installed on mainstream, mass-market cars at affordable prices and the first model will come to Japan this year.

An on-road demo event in Europe in 2016, will showcase the maturity of Nissan’s autonomous drive technology. In 2017, the Nissan Qashqai will become the first Piloted Drive vehicle available in Europe.

Nissan Intelligent Power. Nissan has been the leading automotive brand in electric vehicle technology and sales. Nissan believes that quiet, yet powerful, acceleration with an increased range is essential to ensure an incredible driving experience.

Nissan is boosting EV battery energy density and performance, represented by the 60 kWh battery and up to 550 km (342 miles) autonomy in the Nissan IDS Concept, which is making its European premiere at Geneva. Nissan technologies also reduce charging time, and develop EV potential in other innovative ways.

Alternate sources of on-board electric power, such as fuel cells, will further encourage fuel diversity and renewable energy development. Also on the path of Intelligent Power is the further improvement of downsized turbo and X-TRONIC transmissions for both fuel efficiency and seamless response and acceleration.

Nissan Intelligent Integration. Nissan will help connect cars to social infrastructure such as road, information and electric power networks which will eventually lead to reduced traffic jams, more efficient car sharing, remote vehicle operation and improved energy management.

Nissan also continues to support expanding EV charging networks across Europe, the US, Mexico and Japan. To date, more than 10,500 quick chargers have been installed globally and in Europe, Nissan is working with partners to even further increase quick chargers that can be used by all EVs, helping to grow the entire market and bringing convenience and confidence to the European EV drivers, not just Nissan drivers.

Ubiquitous connectivity is an expectation of car consumers as an extension of their work and personal devices. Technology trends are everywhere with mobility and the “bring your own device” phenomenon extending to vehicles. Nissan said it is committed to enabling vehicles to be part of that connected ecosystem.

Comments

mahonj

Thanks, but i'll wait for version 3.
You know what they say about new things and version numbers.

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What Nissan and everybody else in the auto industry need to be laser focued on in order to stay in business for tomorrow is to make a self-driving Taxi BEV or an Uber like taxi service without any human drivers. This will do the trick of making BEVs mass market economically viable on a global scale.

You could make a long-range and long lasting one million mile self-driving taxi BEV as a two seater with all the needed computer power and sensors that may cost 35k to 40k USD even with today's battery prices of over 200 USD per kwh. The car can earn 20,000 USD per year selling miles for 20 cents per mile and doing 100k miles per year with paying customers. 20,000 USD per year is plenty to cover electricity, capital cost, maintenance and insurance. And 20 cents per mile is about half the total cost of driving one mile in a 15k USD self-owned gasser. Moreover, you don’t need to drive so you also save the time for work, resting or entertainment.

This is the future. It will arrive in about 2020 and by 2030 the entire global auto industry will be transformed into this. The money and time savings and saved pollution and saved lives in traffic accidents is simply too good for this to take a long time to happen. It will become the biggest and fastest industrial revolution since the invention of the combustion engine.

Juan Valdez

Henrik is right. I don't know why the car companies don't start talking about this. Perhaps the head in the sand business planning model?

Seriously, my next car will have auto-stop so it won't run into things, lane-keep, and whatever else I can get to avoid crashing into things - only because I can't get a self-driving car yet.

The future is nearer than the auto industry (except maybe Telsa) will admit.

HarveyD

Our first fully electric taxi company with uniformed paid human drivers has been in operation in Montréal QC for about 4 months. Customers are very satisfied and business is as good or better than expected.

The uniformed drivers are paid about 150% of minimum wages + bonuses.

This is a first step. The e-taxi fleet will grow faster than many expect. The next step (in 2020 or 2025?) may be with a small autonomous drive e-taxi fleet. By 2030 or so it could be one of the largest fleet.

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